With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper …

Since the internet's earliest days, firms and workers have used various online methods to advertise and find jobs …. Until recently there has been little evidence that any internet-based tool has had a measurable effect on job search or … firms are at last developing ways to use the internet as an effective matchmaking tool. In addition, job boards are also …

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data … on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet …

This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are …. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter possibility and by the fact that some workers can simultaneously … receive a job offer from each region. The rest of the framework builds upon Moretti (2011). Increasing the matching …

and the housing market clears. Because of the Internet, searching for a job in another region without first migrating … there is nowadays much simpler than in the past. Search-matching externalities are amplified by this possibility and by the … expected, increasing matching effectiveness in the other region yields growing regional unemployment rates. We characterize the …

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in …